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Caribbean Literature in English (Paperback)
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Caribbean Literature in English (Paperback)
Series: Longman Literature In English Series
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Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise
regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one
area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages,
including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the
Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave
it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's
Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the
sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common
experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual
local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the
heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and
racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses
the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He
traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of
an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n'
is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in
reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean
aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and
Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean
literature with an exploration of its place in world and
postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that
has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in
English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal
to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all
who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and
culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and
contemporary literature and drama.
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